Podcast: “The Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul,” GrowthChat, with Marco Lecchi and Sascha Becker, 15 December 2021.
Category Archives: Finance
Working Paper: “The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Personal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly”
(with Serkant Adıgüzel) “The Islamic Waqf: Instrument of Personal Security, Worldly and Otherworldly” (29 December 2020).
Working Paper: “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839”
(with Aslı Cansunar) “Economic Harbingers of Political Modernization: Peaceful Explosion of Rights in Ottoman Istanbul, 1600-1839” (Economic Research Initiatives at Duke Working Paper, SSRN, December 22, 2020).
Article: “Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation”
“Zakat: Islam’s Missed Opportunity to Limit Predatory Taxation.” Public Choice, 182, (2020): 395-416.
Article: “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey”
(with Murat Çokgezen) “Between Markets and Islamic Law: The Evolution of Islamic Credit Cards in Turkey.” Journal of Comparative Economics, 43 (2015): 862-83.
Encyclopedia article: “Banks and Banking”
“Banks and Banking,” Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2015), print and online.
Interview: “Islamic Finance Sits Awkwardly in a Modern Business School”
with William Barnes: “Islamic Finance Sits Awkwardly in a Modern Business School.” Financial Times, July 21, 2013.
Article: “The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East”
“The Logic of Financial Westernization in the Middle East.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 56 (April 2005): 593-615.
Working paper: “Islamic Barriers to Ottoman Economic Modernization: The Case of Insurance Markets”
“Islamic Barriers to Ottoman Economic Modernization: The Case of Insurance Markets” (September 2004).
Encyclopedia article: “Riba”
“Riba,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004): 596-97.
Article: “The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East”
“The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East.” Journal of Economic History, 63 (June 2003): 414-46. Abstract
- Reprint in Historical methods in the Social Sciences, ed. John Hall and Joseph Bryant (New York: Sage, 2005), pp. 45-82.
Encyclopedia article: “Levant: Islamic Rule”
“Levant: Islamic Rule,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, vol. 3 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003): 309-14.
Article: “The Provision of Public Goods under Islamic Law: Origins, Impact, and Limitations of the Waqf System”
“The Provision of Public Goods under Islamic Law: Origins, Impact, and Limitations of the Waqf System ,” Law and Society Review, 35: 4 (December 2001), 841-97. Abstract
Comment: Bill Maurer’s “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives”
Comment on Bill Maurer’s “Speculations on Islamic Financial Alternatives,” Anthropology Today, 17:3 (June 2001): 28-29.
Review: Casson, The Economics of Business Culture
Mark Casson, The Economics of Business Culture: Game Theory, Transaction Costs, and Economic Performance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), in Journal of Economic Literature, 31 (March 1993): 234-235.
